re: #122 KerFuFFler

Nope. Skepticism and curiosity may be starting points for scientific thought but without the willingness to change one’s mind when new evidence calls for it, skepticism and curiosity get you nowhere fast.

Science can only occur after observation. If you have no observations from which to spawn hypotheses, you’re not doing science. You are, at best, doing philosophy.

Whatever rapper guy might as well envision that the world is really round, but he’s being held in a Matrix where the roundness is baked out by the computers and they show him everything being flat, or something. It fails the preconditions.